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Sir Terry Pratchett in Conversation with Dr. Jacqueline Simpson Sir Terry Pratchett in conversation with Dr. Jacqueline Simpson Recorded on 26th August 2010 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole as part of the Discworld Convention by Katie Brown and Julie Sutton Part 1 Terry Pratchett: When did you first encounter folklore? Jacqueline Simpson: Well I encountered it without actually knowing what it was, giving it any name or anything, when I was a child I suppose, from about five years old onwards in various different forms. My Mother introduced me to Grimm’s Fairytales1, which I loved, and a little bit later to Hans Andersen’s, most of which I hated. And on the other hand the gardener would say things like “ah you know, if you cut a worm in half it can join itself together again and you can see some of them with a kind of thick bit round the middle which shows that’s what happened to them”. And, what else? Well, for instance, there was the question of treacle mines. Now you know about treacle mines too don’t you Terry? TP: My Father, every time he used to drive past Bisham, which is near Marlow on the Thames, he pointed out treacle mines to me. JS: How old were you? TP: That must have been when we were going down to Lyme Regis so I reckon seven perhaps. Like all good folklore it’s tantalisingly reasonable; one can imagine treacle mines, I mean you know, the pit head and all the rest of it, and the guy getting sticky money and their wives have to scrub them down in the evening. It’s so easy to go from that point, if you have an imagination you want it to be true. That was perhaps the first bit of folklore that I heard, but the piece of folklore that I encountered knowing that it was folklore was the Wimblestone on the Mendips, which was at the end of the lane where my wife and I moved not very long after our marriage. I walked up to it and round it and was fascinated by it because there were legends about it, all kinds of legends. But I think if it’s full moon on midsummer’s eve, the stone will canter around the field and if you look into the hole it otherwise occupied, while it was doing so, and saw the glint of treasure you would have to try and run away with it very fast otherwise it would fall on top of you. By then I was old enough to think ‘where’s the evidence?’ But, as I said when I introduce this in the book that we both co- wrote 2about the folklore of the Discword series, I never dared go up there on full moons at midsummer, not because I was scared, well I was scared, I was scared that it wouldn’t do it. While I didn’t prove that it couldn’t, it might have done and as I said, there has to be room somewhere in the world for a stone to dance. JS: Absolutely, oh how I agree. And I love these stories that are tied in with the landscape. I think of all the various many forms of folklore, the local landscape legend is my favourite. And actually it was 1 Grimm’s Fairytales, by Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, first published 1812 2 The Folklore of Discworld by Terry Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson, Doubleday 2008 1 something local which got me interested in English folklore. I had been interested in Icelandic folklore for some years, but one day some workmen were painting my kitchen and they started talking about Chanctobury Ring, which is a group of trees on a hilltop about, say, five miles from where I live. And they said, “you know, if you run round Chanctobury Ring seven times at midnight the devil will come out and give you a bowl of soup.” And the other one said, “No, no George, you’ve got it wrong, you’ve got to do it on Halloween at sunset and it’s thirteen times not seven, and it’s not soup he gives you it’s milk”. And there was a sudden kind of flash in my mind because I remembered two things from my childhood, going back to childhood again; one was that my Dad had said to me “if you run seven times round Chanctobury Ring without stopping” - oh and I may say that is quite a job, someone in good health, a young energetic bloke could do it but I certainly couldn’t have done it at any age, seven times round that without stopping, anyway - “if you go seven times round without stopping” according to my Father, wait a moment, what did he say? He said, “the devil will come out and chase you”. And he also said that if you counted all the trees in that clump you would never get the same number twice, and it would hardly ever be the right number and if it was the right number the ghost of Julius Caesar and all of his armies would come marching across the hills to you, because that is where Julius Caesar landed when he invaded England, which it is not! TP: So fasten your bonnet right under your chin... JS: No wait a moment. Huffity puffity ringstone round, If you lose your cap there... TP: No I think we start at a different key Huffity puffity ringstone round.... JS: Oh, I don’t have a tune to it TP: If you lose your hat it will never be found So tie up your bonnet right under your chin Fasten your cloak with a brand new pin Ask me a riddle and we’ll begin Huffity puffity huff. Now was that made up? It was, wasn’t it? JS: Yes it was TP: But it sounds as if it should be right! JS: And I notice that it is developing variations, which is of course the mark of true folklore, because my version, which doesn’t have a tune, it is just said, is: 2 Huffity puffity ringstone round If you lose your cap there it will never be found So button your coat right up to the chin And fasten your scarf with a bright new pin And if we are ready then we can begin Huffity puffity puff. TP: There should be the Folklore Exploration Society so people would go up to these places with a soup detector, obviously, because you don’t know what the devil is going to turn up with, but the point is, no one is ever going to do that because the last thing you’ve got to do with folklore, is prove it. JS: Yes, yes indeed. TP: I mean why count a ring of stones by putting a loaf on them? That’s Badbury Rings isn’t it? JS: Yes, and also Kit’s Cotyo in Kent. TP: Right. That’s a sheer waste of bread. By the time you’ve got half way down, birds will be pecking at it. JS: Besides, the devil is following round behind you taking a loaf off here and there just to muddle things. TP: OK, well all you have to do, is [have] some mathematician with a stopwatch, just checking, you know, marking the bread. JS: A story is much better than knowledge, I mean I don’t want to know how many stones there are. TP: Yes it’s as good and it’s as fun. The reason I really got interested, because, moving into the West Country of course, there seems to be more stuff there. As someone said, the further you go West, the more numinous the landscape becomes, and I remember the Sunday Times once corrected my word ‘numinous’ to ‘luminous’, now what can you say? JS: Oh, the ignorance of the modern world! TP: Obviously the man either didn’t know what it meant or thought I didn’t! So I started reading up about stuff and going to various sites, just for the sheer fun of it because I’m a fantasy writer anyway so it’s almost part of the job. One time we were coming back from a signing tour, and we went past Flitch, Dunmow. JS: I was just going to say I think the Dunmow Flitch is lurking on the horizon. 3 TP: Our car went past Dunmow and I saw the sign and I said ‘Oh yes, Dunmow Flitch’. And the other occupants of the car were putative adults at least as old as me, and they’d never heard of it. And I thought, thank goodness there is something like the Folklore Society that can actually write these down somewhere. It’s part of growing old - you think of all the things that you know, which you know everybody knows, but then periodically you find out that practically nobody knows them. JS: And that was one of the things, that and fans writing to ask you what on earth had made you think of having three witches ? TP: Yes. “Where did you get the idea from?” JS: Argh! Yes. It’s agonising isn’t it, especially for one who’s been an English teacher like me, hammering Macbeth into the heads of infants. “Where did you get the idea of having three witches?” So anyway, then you got in touch with me did you not? TP: Well it wasn’t quite like that. I was [writing] a book and I wanted to use magpies because I knew about magpie rhymes.
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